Rory Douglas is a Seattle native currently on a nine-month-ish Latin American backpacking trip with his Southern wife. More of his writing is available at rorydouglas.net.
A few months ago my wife and I spent a day on Isla Colon—one of Panama’s Bocas del Toro islands in the Caribbean—where three different men asked if I wanted…
Here’s a hypothesis: one of the reasons Moby-Dick has survived so long in English classes is that the number of Moby-Dick-related essay topics is almost limitless. Moby-Dick is so vast…